STRDH190 2-ch Home Stereo Receiver with Phono Inputs & Bluetooth Black

Speaking as a self-described "audiophile" (but a true audiophile with deep pockets would likely laugh), this was one of the best gifts I've given to myself in recent years (as I have a fairly large music library of nearly 600 albums of 1/3 vinyl, 2/3 CDs and some cassettes). Bought mine back in March--used to be $200, but when I saw it for $150 any hesitation went out the window and I grabbed it. I have been in love with it ever since. Fabulous sound and power (do you really need more than 100 watts per channel?), great remote control (not used to that, believe it or not), and it lives up to Sony quality. Powers my vintage components perfectly: > MCS Series 6202 Belt-Driven Turntable (had it since early 80s) > Nacamichi BX-300 Cassette Deck > Sony DVP-NS725P Disc Player (DVD but used mainly for CDs - audio-only connection) > LG TV connected via optical-to-analog adapter > KEF Reference Series 103/3 Stereo Speakers Interesting observation about the way the ports are labeled on the back: what would traditionally be identified as a tape deck port (with IN/OUT) is just "Input 4," and while it's connected to my tape deck for playback, the REC-OUT is connected to a USB audio adapter to digitally record anything (mostly vinyl of course) to my laptop for mastering and iPod/digital library access. The Bluetooth connectivity is awesome as well with powerful range - great for playing music from mobile devices (phone and iPod Classic with BT adapter). The front line-in 3.5 port, identified as a "Portable" is also a great feature. At first, I was surprised that there was no input for optical, however since digital-to analog adapters are inexpensive and readily available, I think it's best to leave it that way. Would rather have the option, rather than an optical-only port that would otherwise go unused unless one had a component that required it. HOWEVER, if I were to make any improvements, it would be to add a USB Out port (preferably on the front), for digital recording on a PC. However again, since adapters are inexpensive and accessible, and for the price I paid for this device, I ain't gonna complain. Front level analog balance, bass and treble controls would also be nice, but you have access to all that through the menu. If you feel due for a simple, powerful and awesome stereo receiver/amplifier upgrade without breaking your monthly budget, this is a winner.

I have had my 1980s Roger sound lab CG 82 Tower speakers connected to a 1999 Technics audio receiver. I use this set up for Radio and my record player. After many good years, the low end on my audio receiver gave out. I have had it serviced before, but I have owned it for five years and it is a 27-year-old piece of gear that has seen better days. ChatGPT led me to this receiver. It took me less than five minutes to connect my speakers. What I love about this receiver is that it’s so simple to use. The radio signal is very good right out the box without an additional antenna. I was resistant to buying a Bluetooth receiver, but it connected to my iPad and my iPhone in seconds. Now I can play backing tracks through my Roger sound lab speaker speakers while I jam out on guitar. No issues with sound quality or anything like that. Runs cool and quiet. If you are a total audio file, you could buy something more expensive. I am a musician and I listen to vinyl. Mostly jazz and classical, and this is fine for my needs. For most people running a record player, looking to modernize with a Bluetooth enabled receiver, this will suit your needs.

This is a great basic receiver. It's very easy to understand, setup and operate. This receiver sounds excellent and includes Bluetooth so I can stream Apple Music and Spotify to the receiver. My only negative comments would be that the speaker connections are the spring-loaded terminals which require thin gauge speaker wires or Flex Pin Banana Plugs. Also, you should be aware the FM Antenna (provided) is a wire antenna utilizing a strange plug-in adapter. It was perfectly adequate for what I needed however I think it could be an issue if you were in a remote area that required a mast antenna.

Very basic, but seems to be the usual good quality Sony product. I bought this when my decades-old SOny receiver finally bit the dust. This receiver, at a decent price is a LOT more basic than my decades-old earlier receiver. That receiver had multiple inputs-many which I didn't use but were there for audiophiles all the same. Things like inputs for DAT, inputs for MD audio. analog videos in and out, Super video in and out, Component video, standard cassette deck, phono, component video (multiple), DVD in and out, component video, and more audio channel options I can't even remember. And as old as this receiver was it actually had Optical audio as well! I REALLY wanted to replace that old receiver with the exact same thing. albeit the modern model but that doesn't exist. SO I bought this one. Take a look and you'll see very few inputs, but oddly it had all the ones I actually needed for my old set-up-with NO extras though. I'm kind of shocked that this receiver doesn't even have the Optical audio which is kind of a standard now for modern TVs and I had to actually buy a cheap little 'converter box' which takes the optical cable and converts the digital audio into the standard RCA analog audio and I plug that into one of the available inputs in the receiver so that I can play my TV sound through the receiver/stereo system. I'm still kind of shocked that this receiver doesn't have that Optical, that would be the first thing i'd add to really make this a bargain and much more desirable. So I had to have a receiver for my old cassette deck, phono, etc. and standard CD player as well as DVD/Blu Ray audio sound (as concert DVDs don't sound too good on the standard speakers which come with modern TVs. So i've used EVRY input in this new unit and I really couldn't have bought it if it had a single less input. So in addition to having an input for Optical audio the other thing I wished it had was a receiver for AM radio, even if AM isn't too popular anymore. So maybe the lack of the Optical audio, additional inputs for other sources and no AM radio is the reason why this receiver is so reasonably priced, but well, i'm happy with it all the same.

I bought this to drive a pair of Klipsch R-620F Tower speakers. 1. It was really easy to set up. 2. The bluetooth connectivity was seamless when connecting to my laptop. 3. The sound quality is pretty impressive for a receiver of this price, 4. Since this receiver only transfers data as AAC through bluetooth you'll need to run 3.5mm headphone jack to RCA from your device to get HD Audio. This is a weakness but I knew it before I bought it. 5. The volume control is interesting because I can just sit at my laptop and adjust it without touching the receiver (through bluetooth). 6. Overall this unit is a very good buy based on dollar value. I will be upgrading in a year or so to Sony's sister receiver that has an LDAC codec for bluetooth, but I'm still very happy with this purchase.

Do not allow the extremely low price on this Sony STRDH 190 stereo receiver to in any way prejudice you against considering it as a wonderful entry-level stereo receiver. I have purchased thousands of products on Amazon over the past 25 years, and I cannot think of any item that pleasantly surprised me more profoundly than this one. I also purchased the matching (style) Sony turntable PS-LX310BT which works perfectly with the STRDH 190 receiver. Sony's lowest priced receiver now sells for the astounding bargain price of only around $200, though I caught it on sale for closer to $150... and as impossible as this is the believe, it has in recent years gone on sale for as little as $99(!) I have no idea how Sony makes a profit at these price levels. Now I know, most people would think, "there is just no way a $200 receiver is high quality"... but I am telling you, that is dead wrong in this case, and you should prepare to be blown away by what you get at this crazy low price point. This is NOT a no frills unit. It is feature packed. It has connections for TWO PAIR (four total) speakers, and PLENTY of clean no-distortion power to drive all four speakers to loud and clear volume levels. It also has an A/B speaker switch to play through speaker set A, or speaker set B, or all four speakers at once. It has a phono stage pre-amp which is actually very good. Seriously, it is much better than the phono stage pre-amp built into my Emotiva integrated amp for which I paid $1,000. It plays vinyl loud with no distortion. You will NOT need an external phono pre-amp. It has excellent Bluetooth wireless connectivity built in... no trouble getting it to instantly recognized sources and play them perfectly. You can play all the music on your iPhone or other digital device, wirelessly. It has a huge allotment of extra connections, ... a whopping FOUR inputs... so you can also hook up a CD player, and another external device of your choice, and another one after that, and another one after that! (WOW). And that's is not counting your PHONO input which is actually a fifth input connection. Astounding accommodation of external sources at this (or almost any) price point. If you are a dinosaur who listens to FM ... it's got an FM receiver with 30 station presets, and an output to hook up a proper external FM antenna, and a long-wire FM antenna is included in the package Sony says the "HiRes" audio produced by this unit is "superior to CD quality"... though I am not sure how to measure that claim, especially if the extrnal source you are using is a CD player. It comes with a very high quality remote control, with real buttons, and many features. You can actually program each of your external sources to appear in the illuminated display as the specific names you want, rather than a generic default source name like "CD". The low price may raise an eyebrow, and the fairly light weight (much heavier on one side than on the other curiously) nature of the unit may also cause doubt... but only until you set it up and start listening, and your jaw drops. I would put this sub-$200 receiver up against any receiver on the market priced under $800, (and probably several of them priced at twice that much!) and I believe you will not be disappointed in the sound quality of Sony's entry-level unit. You certainly will NEVER find another receiver anywhere near this price point with so many features and inputs... all of which work flawlessly. This is the greatest bargain in the world of affordably-priced HiFi equipment. It is easily worth multiple times the asking price.

First off, I don’t think some of the negative reviews are the final word. For one thing, if you call yourself an “audiophile”, you probably shouldn’t be buying a $200 stereo amp….more like, ‘wouldn’t you spend a whole lot more for a better quality component to begin with’? I am old school…I still have albums, cassettes and CDs, plus I listen to the radio daily and I do have a tablet…which now, thanks to this unit, I can play through all 4 of my stereo speakers. Yeah, yeah! The flimsy piece of wire antenna that comes with the unit gives me good reception for the stations I regularly listen to. I like how I can access the first three of the fourteen stations I easily programmed into the unit, via the remote. The remote is very functional and handy….especially if you have trouble seeing the small print on the actual buttons on the face of the amplifier. I am no tech whiz…and I don’t have a lot of patience but it was very easy to duplicate my old set-up from the amplifier I was replacing…which was my 37 year old JVC…it finally died. I listened to an album and the sound is fine. You can adjust the bass and treble to your liking. The phono input jack accesses an equalizer so it is important to use the Phono Line In for your turntable. There is a button to press for high fidelity which supposedly cuts out background noise. That also seems to lower the volume a bit as well. Someone wrote that you can’t control the volume independently between left and right speakers..but you actually can using the settings via the remote. I read through the entire manual and I only got confused a couple of times. It is a very user-friendly manual and machine. It plays my CDs very well..nice and loud. I plugged my dual CD player into the 4th input which allows for playing and recording (line in/line out). Now the newness for me is the Bluetooth….it has many features..some of which I don’t want so I just go to the display and amp menu and click here and there and eventually find the setting I need. It is nice to now be able to listen to the podcasts on my tablet through my home speakers. I guess I am lucky…the package arrived in two days, everything was totally brand new and in excellent condition…It was a little bit of a challenge to get the speaker wires in the little holes but with readers and a headlamp and some calm, I did it. Fingers crossed that I don’t have any issues in the future. If you read the instructions and pay attention to little warnings I don’t see how anyone could complain about this item malfunctioning. Like I said…if you are an audiophile and very picky and meticulous about sound then don’t buy this for yourself. I am very sensitive to sound and a lot of sounds in life bother me…but everything coming out of my new stereo receiver is music to my ears. I love it! P.S. The only thing I can’t seem to do is to remove some radio stations from ones that I mistakenly set to preset. I can remove them as I go by changing the order number but at the end of the preset list there are remaining stations I don’t want to ever hear again. My fix was to program my preset list of fourteen twice and then the first two as stations 29 and 30. So at least this way if scrolling through my presets I don’t have to listen to obnoxious music and talk..but only hear bits and pieces of stations I might consider listening to. I wish there was a way to just delete the presets entirely so you could start from scratch.

I bought my STR-DH190 receiver to put in my "man cave" pool room. I respect SONY products, but I realized this 2-channel stereo receiver was a budget item, seemingly so inexpensive it must just be an entry-point-only receiver. I was shocked by its quality, sturdy construction, versatility and audiophile sound. It has Bluetooth connectivity, and a phono input for turntables. I hooked up a CD player, turntable, reel-to-reel, cassette deck, iPod, sub woofer and two sets of high end bookshelf speakers. The fronts are SONY Sscs5 3-Way 3-Driver Bookshelf Speakers. The rears are Polk. The sound is shocking, and everyone who hears it can't believe how it rocks. Now that this receiver is actually on sale at almost a "give-away" price, I'm tempted to buy another one as a backup in case one of my other systems needs a replacement receiver. It is Bluetooth ready, so I pair an Echo Dot with it for streaming. It is an amazingly versatile and reliable product. Highly Recommended.

Compré este estéreo a un magnífico precio ($2,471.89 el 29/07/2019) para substituir a mi antiquísimo SONY LBT-A30 con sus extraordinarias bocinas SS-D33. Al principio pensé que había hecho una mala compra por lo básico del aparato y no contar con entrada de subwoofer muy a pesar de su baratura. Sin embargo, lo conecté utilizando las bocinas de mi antiguo Sony junto con unas nuevas Polk 15, a pesar de que se escuchaba bien, no tenía ni profundidad ni potencia, nada podía esperarse de un aparato económico e incluso no superaba a mi viejo Sony que contaba con su entrada de subwoofer el cual yo lo había habilitado por ocurrencia con una bocina central OTTO y sonaba de maravilla. Por tanto, compré un subwoofer de 10 pulgadas y conecté las bocinas a sus entradas correspondientes, el resultado fue sorprendente, el Sony dio profundidad y potencia además de un sonido puro y claro por lo que ahora disfruto la música a través de este excelente aparato.

Excelente aparelho. Som muito limpo. Boa quantidade de entradas de periféricos. Entrada individual phono. Fácil manuseio/operação. Produto de primeira linha.

Bought this receiver for my husband this Christmas and it has never shut off. Either has radio playing satellite playing or Bluetooth connected to Spotify on his phone. He is very pleased with the output as it is only a two channel and we have two tower speakers so it pumps them out nicely. Very easy to use not a lot of options. Basic but I assure you it pumps the sound out with clarity. asking for one to go outside on the back deck now his birthday is in May. guess what he’s getting?

Lo compré para oír fono sin embargo probé Bluetooth,CD y dos entradas y todo funciona muy bien. El bajo y el agudo al moverlos no se extienden mucho,pero ya que en sonido elevado los marca muy bien. En Sony y Yamaha en amplificadores barato para apreciar la calidad de sonido y música deben tener mínimo de volumen 50. Qué podemos decir: bueno bonito y barato.

Gostei muito. Visual clean e ótimo equipamento.